C.J. And Co. - Deadeye Dick (1978)

Funky disco work from CJ & Co -- one of those groups that really seemed to make the best transition from the earlier Westbound years into the storming disco sound of the later 70s! The group's working here under key production from Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey -- storming to the top of the Theodore groove with a tight weave of funky guitars, soaring keys, and sweeping strings. Tracks are all long, and titles include "Big City Sidewalk", "Deadeye Dick", "Burning Drums Of Fire", "You're Still The Sweetest Thing In My Life", and "Hear Say". (Cover has creasing, a promo stamp on front, & ringwear.)

Side A
1. Burning Drums of Fire (5:18)
2. Deadeye Dick (7:00)
3. Beware the Stranger (6:15)

Side B
1. Big City Sidewalk (6:20)
2. Hear Say (7:18)
3. You're Still the Sweetet Thing In My Life (5:52)

Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl (1973)

1. Summer In The City (feat. Valerie Simpson)
2. Eyes Of Love
3. Tribute to A.F.: Daydreaming/First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
4. Love Theme From The Getaway
5. You've Got It Bad Girl
6. Superstition
7. Manteca
8. Sanford & Son Theme (The Streetbeater)
9. Chump Change

Sweet funky Q for the 70s -- easily one of the coolest albums ever from Quincy Jones! The album's got a very heavy electric vibe -- one that's kind of a laidback take on the styles that Jones was forging in some of his 70s soundtrack work -- served up with massive work on the keyboards from Dave Grusin and Bob James, the latter of whom brings some of his own CTI vibe strongly into play! The basslines are great too -- often dipping, stepping, and turning wonderfully -- keeping things laidback and mellow, but always making for some sort of a groove, even on the slower tracks too. There's just a bit of vocals on the record -- handled by Valerie Simpson on two tracks, and Quincy on another -- but the main focus here is on the instrumentation, which is completely sublime. Titles include Quincy's great remake of "Summer In The City", an oft-sought sample track -- plus versions of "Superstition", "Daydreaming", and "You've Got It Bad Girl" -- and the great originals "Chump Change", "Love Theme From The Getaway", "Eyes Of Love", and "Sanford & Son Theme".

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Jazz Rhythm Case - Jazz Rhythm (2009)

01. Wait A Minute 05:49
02. Umbrella 05:53
03. Leaving (Always on Time Part II) 04:46
04. Try Again 05:01
05. No Scrubs 04:30
06. I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman 04:06
07. The Sweet Escape 05:28
08. Dilemma 05:30
09. Crazy in Love 05:09
10. No One 06:13

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Solomon Burke - Like A Fire (2008)

01. Like A Fire
02. We Don't Need It
03. The Fall
04. A Minute To Rest And A Second To Pray
05. Ain't That Something
06. What Makes Me Think I Was Right
07. Understanding
08. You And Me
09. Thank You
10. If I Give My Heart To You

When Solomon Burke sings, you can hear his smiling eyes — he's having a laugh at his detractors. Over the past half-decade, the 68-year-old soul titan defied the odds, re-emerging from commercial oblivion with a string of albums that showcase his genius for ragged-voiced ballads, and for pure blarney. You can hear the latter on Like a Fire's title track, where Burke delivers the most hackneyed rhymes — "burning in my soul" rhymes with "yearning to be whole" — with an endearingly hammy baritone rumble.
Like a Fire pairs the old master with younger guest stars (Keb' Mo', Ben Harper) on songs that emphasize Burke's uptempo side. Producer Steve Jordan gives the music a clattery, funky underpinning, and though the material isn't as strong as 2006's country-soul tour de force Nashville, Burke wrings maximum pathos and humor even from the weakest stuff. The highlight: A wonderfully blustery reading of the cocktail jazz standard "If I Give My Heart to You." It's proof that Burke could spend his sunset years enthroned on a Vegas concert stage.
JODY ROSEN

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Solomon Burke - The Chess Collection (2006)

1. Music To Make Love By (Part 1)
2. Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. You And Your Baby Blues
5. All The Way
6. Thanks I Needed That
7. Everlasting Love
8. Midnight And You
9. Music To Make Love By (Part 2)
10. Burning For Your Love
11. Night And Day
12. Everybody`s Got To Cry Sometime
13. I`m Going Back To My Roots
14. Precious Flower
15. The Do Right Song
16. Life Has Its Ups And Downs
17. Over And Over (Hugging And Loving)
18. I`ll Never Stop Loving You
19. I`m Having On That Late, Late Train
20. Love`s Paradise

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Mariah Parker - Sangria (2009)

1 Waterwheel
2 Sangria
3 Debajo de la Lluvia
4 First Flight
5 Between the Lines
6 Pente
7 Tenth Journey
8 Milo's Moment

When a CD is titled Sangria, one automatically assumes that there is going to
be a strong Spanish influence. Sangria wine, after all, is as
quintessentially Spanish as flamenco, bullfights, paella, the Prado Museum,
Pedro Almodóvar films, and scorching heatwaves in Sevilla. But the Spanish
influence isn't as strong on this early 2009 release as its title indicates.
Regardless, this is an excellent album from pianist Mariah Parker, whose work
is best described as world jazz. Parker brings a wide variety of influences
to Sangria, ranging from Indian and Middle Eastern music to Afro-Cuban salsa
and Brazilian samba. She obviously appreciates the Eastern-influenced
spirituality and mysticism of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders,
and Lonnie Liston Smith, but her composing also contains elements of everyone
from Pat Metheny to Chick Corea. And while Spanish flamenco is an influence
on Sangria, it is only one of many influences. Sangria is an ambitious and
challenging album, although it is also relatively accessible. In some cases,
ambitious and challenging can mean abstract and ultra-cerebral, but melodic
Parker originals such as "Between the Lines," "Debajo de la Lluvia," "10th
Journey" and "Waterwheel" are fairly easy to absorb -- even if one isn't a
seasoned jazz listener. Parker, of course, didn't invent the idea of world
jazz; New Orleans pioneers like King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were
influenced by world music back in the 1910s and 1920s. But she keeps it
moving forward; Parker takes chances, demonstrating that the fusion of jazz
and world music still has plenty of possibilities after all these years --
and a global perspective serves Parker well throughout the rewarding Sangria.

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Death Valley Surfers - Last Dance Saloon (2008)

1. Folsom Prison Blues 3:36
2. Heart Breaking Days 2:47
3. Crossfire 3:28
4. My Little Sister's Gotta Motorbike 2:57
5. Kiss Baby 2:47
6. Hangover 3:12
7. She's A Knockout 3:39
8. Das Model 3:29
9. Black Velvet 3:52
10. Fetish Party 3:05
11. Buzz Buzz A Diddle It 3:42

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Judith Jones Band - Calling Back Yesterday (2007)

1 Dinner's in the Dog
2 Lake Charles
3 One Good Man
4 Drown In My Own Tears
5 Dead Man's Eye
6 Georgia
7 Drug Store Truck Driving Man
8 Mountain
9 Turtle Blues
10 Calling Yesterday Back
11 Road to Ruin
12 Favourite Place

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Kitty, Daisy And Lewis - Kitty, Daisy And Lewis (2008)

01 Going Up the Country
02 Buggin' Blues
03 Polly Put the Kettle On
04 Honolulu Rock-a Roll-a
05 I Got My Mojo Working
06 Mean Son of a Gun
07 Hillbilly Music
08 Mohair Sam
09 Ooo Wee
10 Swinging Hawaii

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The Qemists - Join The Q (2009)

01. Stompbox
02. Lost Weekend
03. On The run
04. Dem Na Like Me
05. S.W.A.G. (intro)
06. S.W.A.G.
07. Drop Audio
08. When UR Lonely
09. Soundface
10. Got 1 Life
11. The Perfect Pitch

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The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free (2009)

1. Down in the flood 5:02
2. Something to make you happy 5:01
3. Maybe this time 5:03
4. Sweet inspiration 4:38
5. Don't miss me 4:16
6. Get what you deserve 3:36
7. Our love 5:18
8. Down don't bother me 5:07
9. Days is almost gone 5:13
10. Back where i started 4:20
11. I know 4:45
12. Already free 2:46

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Average White Band (Discography)

AWB was formed in 1971 by Alan Gorrie and Malcolm "Molly" Duncan, with Onnie McIntyre, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball and Robbie McIntosh joining them in the original line-up. Duncan and Ball, affectionately known as the Dundee Horns, studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (now part of the University of Dundee), and were previously members of Mogul Thrash. Gorrie and McIntyre had been members of Forever More.
The band's breakthrough was a support slot at Eric Clapton's comeback concert in 1973. MCA Records released their debut album, Show Your Hand, which sold poorly. Bruce McCaskill, who was Clapton's tour manager, liked the band's music and agreed to manage them. He borrowed money to take them to the U.S. and to promote them. McCaskill had many contacts from his days with Clapton and managed to get Atlantic Records to sign them. The band relocated to New York, signed to Atlantic and released the follow-up, AWB, better known as "The White Album". This album was the first of many with renowned producer Arif Mardin, and reached #1 in the U.S. Hot 100 chart.
McIntosh died of a heroin overdose on 23 September 1974. (Gorrie also overdosed but Cher kept him conscious until medical help arrived.)[5] McIntosh was replaced by Steve Ferrone (of Bloodstone, and, like McIntosh, previously with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express).
In 1975, the single "Pick Up The Pieces" from the album AWB also reached #1 in the U. S. chart. The track is probably their best known today. The band followed up with LPs Cut the Cake (1975) and Soul Searching (1976), both big sellers and yielding further Top 40 singles. Cut the Cake was dedicated by the surviving band members to Robbie McIntosh's memory. Their next LP, Benny & Us, was a collaboration with soul legend Ben E. King.
After several more albums, AWB's audience and sales dwindled. Their 1980 disco hit "Let's Go Round Again" (UK #12), was covered in the late 1990s by Louise. The group disbanded by 1982. Ferrone went on to work with Duran Duran whilst Hamish Stuart joined Paul McCartney's touring group. In 1985 Gorrie released a solo album, Sleepless Nights. Gorrie, McIntyre, and Ball reunited in 1989 to record Aftershock, but Ball left the band shortly after its release. Eliot Lewis co-wrote with Gorrie on this album and joined the band, replacing lead singer Hamish Stuart.
Average White Band has continued recording (Soul Tattoo 1997, Face to Face, 1999) and touring since. When Eliot Lewis left AWB in September 2002 to pursue other musical opportunities, he was replaced by Klyde Jones (see [6]). Their most recent album release in April 2003 was entitled Living in Colour.
AWB's line-up then included Alan Gorrie (bass, lead vocals), Klyde Jones (guitar, keyboard, lead vocals), Onnie McIntyre (guitar, vocals), Fred Vigdor (sax, keyboard, vocals) and Brian Dunne (drums). Gorrie and McIntyre are the only remaining original members of the band.
Brian Dunne was replaced by Rocky Bryant as drummer for the 2006 tour

1973 - Show Yor Hand
1974 - AWB
1975 - Cut The Cake
1976 - Person To Person
1976 - Soul Searching
1977 - Benny & Us (feat. Ben E. King)
1978 - Warmer Communication
1979 - Feel No Fret
1980 - Pick Up The Pieces (compilation)
1980 - Shine
1980 - Volume VIII
1982 - Cupid's In Fashion
1989 - Aftershock
1996 - Soul Tattoo
2005 - Greates and Latest

Izit - The Whole Affair (1993)

1 Izit Everywhere
2 Sharing Our Lives
3 Bird Of Paradise
4 Blo White And The Seven Chords
5 One By One
6 Say Yeah
7 The Whole Affair (Part 1)
8 Sugar And Spice
9 Don't Give Up Now
10 The Rhyme Of The Ancient Groova
11 The Whole Affair (Part 2)

Rare UK groove revivalists of the early 90s whose name stemmed from a technological mishap; when they were sampling the word "music" their sequencer messed up and looped "Izit" instead. They enjoyed breakthrough success with "Stories", on their own Pig & Trumpet label in 1989, a version of the rare groove staple originally recorded by Chakachas. The group, who comprised former Tarzan-a-gram Tony Colman (guitar/keyboards; ex-Pulse), Peter Shrubshall (flute/tenor saxophone) and sister Catherine Shrubshall (soprano, alto and baritone saxophone) were originally a studio-based enterprise. However, they added drummer Andrew Messingham and a bass player to the line-up for their first live shows. A huge hit in 1989, Messingham had actually scratched "Acid Free Zone" onto the run-out grooves of "Stories". Despite their avowed wish to slow the pace of the summer's soundtrack, the single was widely adored by the acid house crowd after the track was initially bought on import (Izit having licensed its release in Italy). Eventually it transferred to Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Records label where he produced a popular remix. They eventually followed up with "Make Way For The Originals", again on Pig & Trumpet, before electing to sign with the independent Optimism. However, when the latter neglected to pay the studio bill for Izit's debut album the tapes were retained, though the set did emerge under the name Main Street People in late 1993.
Disillusioned, original members of the band drifted away, though Colman set up the new Tongue & Groove imprint, which eventually saw Izit return on "Don't Give Up Now" and "One By One", featuring vocalist Sam Edwards. Later material introduced Nicola Bright, who co-wrote much of The Whole Affair. Other guests/semi-permanent members included Byron Wallen (trumpet), Andy Gangadeen (drums), Steven Lewinson (bass) and Haji Mike and MC Mell "O" (rappers). After Izit finally split up in the mid-90s, Colman teamed up with Chris Goss and set up the drum 'n' bass orientated label Hospital Records. The duo also record as London Elektricity.

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